"A spy tale with missing pieces" ---Eugene Robinson
A spy tale with missing pieces
12:13 p.m. EST, November 13, 2012|Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group
WASHINGTON -- The one familiar aspect of the David Petraeus scandal is that he had an affair. Everything else about this story is weird.
Petraeus, who resigned Friday as director of the CIA, is brilliant, brave, dedicated and accomplished. But he is also vain. Even his most loyal and ardent supporters have to acknowledge the care with which he has always burnished his own image. He is used to being surrounded by acolytes -- staff officers, journalists, hangers-on -- whose fawning attentions can only foster a sense of superiority and entitlement.
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We know that Kelley lives in Tampa, is married, and that she and her husband count David and Holly Petraeus among their friends. It is unclear whether she knows Broadwell, and it appears that the menacing emails she received had been sent anonymously.
In the end, this may be a simple story: A woman gets a series of disturbing messages and asks an FBI agent she knows for help. A few months later, the nation's chief spy -- and perhaps its greatest living military hero -- comes crashing down.
If you believe in coincidences.
If you don't, there has to be a foreign spymaster involved, an updated version of John le Carre's diabolical Karla, an unseen figure manipulating these characters like puppets toward subtle and devious ends. Maybe I see the game that's being played. Maybe I know what this is all about.
But if I told you, I'd have to kill you.
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truly valid point, of which there seem to be many
I know that anyone who had to know everything about the general was well informed about the affair. You don't get to be head of that agency or any agency so close to the POTUS without an exhaustive background check into every facet of your existence. You don't get on the bar in any state with one so....
I still think that there's something we're not gonna hear about and it has to do with the original three players and connections that will not be made public.
And the FBI part was the shirtless wonder's Cantor's attempt to pull a JEdgarHoover blackmail ploy only Cantor isn't smart enough to know that everything was already known and a smokescreen at best.
Also, post hearing where the genrl testified yesterday, you might notice the demeanor of one Sen. McGoo who was absolutely livid upon leaving that closed door hearing he so adamantly demanded to expose the lies he was accusing certain figures of making. He was caught outside the door by a group of reporters and it was obvious he was so red-faced pissed that he was damned near panting, probably had a major temper-tantrum meltdown before leaving the chamber. After a few quick statements he gave the rest a menacing look and hurried off like Count Dracula at dawn. That should tell you right there where the cover up is attempted and that there was something else for which the whole email fiasco is meant to cloud up for the media to feast on. We might never know what it is, or we might find out soon but the article above is another keep-the-story-alive event while not saying anything waste of time.
if his less than stellar Reputation...might be exposed...about that fire on the aircraft carrier he was blamed for that was covered up.
What else could explain his "Outrage" which makes him seem deranged? 
commte due to term limits. He is campaigning hard for an exception" to the term limit rule that the Rs have for their Sen. commtes. There aren't many positions that he's interested in and the Native American Affairs commte is not a place anyone wants him to have a say as he hates the NAs in his state and has gone out of his way to fuck with them in the past... and that's one of the few assignments open this session.
He's losing relevance and it'll be the death of him... ... 
